Sinha, J.-This is an appeal by special leave from the judgment and order, dated 22nd September, 1955, passed by the Letters Patent Bench of the Nagpur High Court reversing those of a single Judge of that Court, dated 13th December, 1954, refusing to issue a writ in the nature of a certiorari.

The facts of this case lie in a short compass and may be stated as follows: The Suwarna Transport Company, Limited, which will be referred to as the first respondent in the course of this judgment, held seven permits for running buses on the Buldana-Malkapur route, as the sole operator on that route. It applied for another permit for the same route. The appellant, The New Prakash Transport Co. Ltd., as also another party called the Navjivan Transport Service (not cited in this Court) applied for a similar permit on that route. On 26th May, 1953, all the three applicants aforesaid were heard by the Regional Transport Authority of Amraoti, which is the third respondent in this Court, in connection with the permit applied for. Consideration of the several applications was postponed,, but a resolution was passed to the effect that “No one service should have monopoly on Buldana-Malkapur route”. On

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